THE CENTRE REPORTER, CENTRE HALL. PA. Sd . NE — He doesn't look a day over fifty. J aad : And feels like forty, ot va $a or ST. xAvign’ Z SLL Woinac doa = Al the age of 62. Joes Te jay {eet That's the happy state of health i 7 ed / rom, FT ran (7 L1015 NT Fro 3 a and pep a man enjoys when he gives ; NTENAe. 2 shape, feel fit the year "round, take a spoonful of Dr. Caldwell’s syrup epsin every few days. You'll eat [im sleep betler and feel better in every way. You will newer need to take another loxotive. his vital organs a little stimulant] Give the children a little of this A By ELMO SCOTT WATSON HE time is FebMuary in the year 1082; the place is the Illinois river in what Is now the state of that nan the actors In the eple drama which is now about t begin are some 18 Indians and of French soldiers and voyageurs, Not a very impressive company, it is true, but the leader of it Is i what makes it great. For this leader is (Rene-Robert Caveller, Sieur de la Salle, “ms cent adventurer” and one of the world's greatest explorers, “La Salle announced that they would take to their canoes, They lifted the light white birch-barks from the sledges, and slipped them into the icy water. The baggage and rifles went aboard, plece by piece, then man after man, sol- dier, and voyageur, and red hunter stepped gin- gerly to his place, sank to a kneeling position, and took up his long-handled paddle. First one light canoe, then another, pushed off from shore and the black current bore them away. “To right and left they saw drab banks frost- flecked and hard that rang under a blow, and leafless forests fron in thelr rigid desolation that rose despairingly toward an opaque gray sky. On the sixth of February, they emerged from the Illinois, and thelr fleet slipped out upon the swelling current of the Mississippl., La Salle's dreams came nearer. The mirage at last prom- ised realization” Thus began the historic voyage down the length of the “Father of Waters” which was to give to France control of the interior of North America, which was to open up the vista of the richness of a new empire before the greedy eyes of the white race, which was to enbroll Eng- land and France in an almost unending war for the next three-quarters of a century and which was to result finally in the founding of a new nation greater than either. It is this voyage which has been characterized as “one of the greatest epics of all history.” To most Americans the name ofa Salle Is Just another in a dimly-remembered list from their school-book histories. But now, 250 years after the beginning and the end of his great achievement, his name ia brought to their atten- tion again through the publication of two biogra- phies of him, One of them is “La Salle,” written by 1. V. Jacks and published by Charles Secrib- ner's Sons (from which the foregoing quotation is taken) and the other is “The French Ad- venturer—The Life and Exploits of La Salle,” written by M. Maurice Constantin-Weyer and published by the Macaulay company. Mr. Jacks is an American and M. Constantin-Weyer is a Frenchman. So {t is interesting to read thelr two books together and get the two points of view on this great Frenchman whose name is written high in the annals of America. Of the voyage down the river, Mr. Constantin. Weyer writes a vivid account—how “spring was breaking on every side. A sky of clouds rent by the wind was reflected In blue and white. The forest was powdered with tender green. Flowers were unfolding timid petals, The cries of migratory birds filled the imn¥nse valley. Mosquitoes swarmed, At night coyotes barked en the hillsides. In the mornings bison de gcended In friendly palrs to the glant drinking trough.” They passed the mouths of great rivers—the muddy Missouri, the quiet Ohlo, (“La Belle Riviere”) and the Arkansas. There were ad- ventures with Indians, both pleasant and grim, for they met both friendly and hostile red men. There were innumerable new wonders of scenery which unfolded before their eyes and a variety of experiences such as few explorers had ever had. Just two months from the time they had floated out upon the broad bosom of the Missis- sippl, “all at once spray struck their faces, Tasting the water they found it already brack- ish. A great joy painfully welled up in their breasts: a thrill ran down thelr spines, And suddenly, sonorous under the shock of a thou sand waves, immense and without a sail, there was the sea! April the seventh, 16821" Thus M. Constantin-Weyer, And now to turn to Mr. Jacks for the next scene: “The Frenchmen must have been as glad to see the Gulf as Xenophon's hardy soldiers once were glad to see the blue of the Euxine. When at last, red as a great fire-tinged ruby, the sun had dropped to fest in the melancholy marshes and savannas to westward, and the night wind brought over the glitter of the phosphorescent gen the faint hushed volces of breathing waters, the yoyagers lay down beside their canoes, aware that they had seen, In all probability, the greatest day of thelr tumultuous lives. It had been a long trail which he had fol . . A c hoe [4 . 12a Salle at the Mouth of the INississippt Count Frontenac lowed since that far-off day when as a school boy in Rouen, France, he had read of other explorers and adventurers and had thrilled to the tales of their exploits in the places which had previously been marked on the rude maps of the time “terra incognita.” In those 30 years his life had been one of many hardships, of many high hopes, of many disappointments. But in his make-up was the tough fiber of soul which had carried him through all of this, the fiber that justified the title given him by an early American blographer—"The Undespairing Nor- man,” Educated for priesthood In the Jesuit order, La Salle soon found that the restlessness in his blood would never allow him to be happy In that role. The result was =& journey In his early twenties to Canada where his broth. er was a prist in the Seminary of St. Sul pice, ‘Through the influence of this brother, he received a grant of land near Montreal, a seigneury which he named La Chine. The name was significant—already he was dreaming of finding the undiscovered northwest passage to China, the goal of many an explorer before him, 80 when the Indians told him of a great south- western river which flowed into the “Vermil lion sea™ his quick mind grasped this as the route of the long-sought passage to the Orient, and he determined to follow the river. So he sold his seigneury to obtain funds for an expe- dition and in July, 1660, the first of his long wanderings through the interior of the North American continent began. That trip carried him up the St. Lawrence, along the south shore of Lake Ontario, afiong the villages of the Iroquois, on to Niagara, along the south shore of Lake Erie and then south through what Is now the state of Ohlo until he, in all probability, reached the Ohlo river, But desertions among his followers forced La Salle to go back to Canada so hig first egpedition was something of a fallure. His resources were now exhausted but he found an unexpected friend in Count Frontenac, “the Iron Governor” of Canada, who gave him the exclusive trading privileges at Fort Fron- tenae (the modern Kingston) on the condiion that he would rebuild the defenses and garrl- gon the post. In the meantime Father Mar- quette and Louls Joliet had reached the Missis- sippl, “the Great Southwest river” and gone down it for a considerable distance, although they did not follow it to its mouth, So that honor still awaited La Salle. However, he needed more capital, so In 1677 be made a trip to France with letters from TE. anit ZZ Ontars, f= CA > NN *eRo out, * of Lasan, - i reat Oyage or ey) Yiscovery Bn —— - Frontenac to the king and hls ministers Paris La Salle found attentive listeners to bh plans and when he returned to Canada in 165 he brought with him a royal decree authorizing him to make discoveries and build forts in 1 interior of North America. He also brought hack with him the man who was destined to be ief lieutenant and greatest friend-—Henrl Tontl, an Italian, “the Man with the Iron | Salle and Tontl were busy nt Niagara and building =a | ghip. Before 5 1 ne ha ing nna come | vessel of about 45 tons, the largest yet bullt for service on the Great Lakes, was completed. On its prow was a carved griffon from the armorial bearings of La Salle's patron, Count Frontenac, and this ship won enduring fame under the name of the Grif. fin (Incidentally, It was more “enduring” than | La Salle could possibly have realized, for within the last year the timbers from a wrecked ship | were found in Lake Huron and there is strong | gvidence to support the belief that these tim- | bers were once a part of the Griffin—found after | more than 250 years!) La Salle sailed his vessel to Michilimackinace where he acquired a rich store of furs, then | gailed on Into Lake Michigan and finally dropped | anchor in Green Bay where some more furs were | obtained, Sending the Griffin back to Montreal, { Ia Sslle started south along the Wisconsin ghore and reaching the mouth of the 8t. Joseph, he bullt Fort Miami. Then he struck across | country to the upper Kankakee, From there he made his way down the Illinois to the present | gite of Peoria, Ill, where he built Fort Creve coeur, f.eaving Tontl in charge, La Salle started back to Canada, When he reached Niagara at Easter time im 1680 it was to find news of disaster The OCriffin with all of her rich cargo of furs had been lost. La Salle hurried on to Montreal and once more sought the aid of Frontenac Again he was provided with the necessary equip ment for carrying out his projects and within a few months he was again at Fort Frontenac and ready to Join Tontl at Crevecoeur. Just as he was ready to leave, however, there came the news that the garrison at the fort on the Il nols had mutinied and destroyed the post, La Sallie's one hope now was that the faithful Tontl had held on and had saved something from the wreckage of his plans. But when he reached Crevecoeur, he found Tonti gone to Green Bas and the place deserted. Undaunted by this climax to his misfortunes, the “Undespairing Norman” pushed on down the Illinois until he reached the Mississippi. But his party was too small to attempt an expedition down this great river. So La Salle once more retraced his wenry steps northward. He spent the winter at Fort Miami, and In the spring he learned that Tont) was at Michilimackinae and there he hastened to hear from his trusted lieutenant the long tale of disaster. Of this Interview an eye-witness writes: “Anyone else would have thrown up his hands and abandoned the enterprise; but far from this, with a firmness and constancy that never had its equal, 1 saw him more resolved than ever to continue his work and push for ward his discovery,” La Salle was now determined to continue with his plan for exploring the Mississippl. Return. ing once more to Fort Frontenac he replenished his supplies and In the autumn of 1681 he set out once more, with Tontl, for the Illinois coun try. 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